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Simplified method for the measurement of total non-starch polysaccharides by gas-liquid chromatography of constituent sugars as alditol acetates

Hans N. Englyst, John H. Cummings

The Analyst

A procedure is described for the measurement and characterisation of total non-starch polysaccharides in plant foods by gas-liquid chromatography of individual sugars as alditol acetates. Starch,...

Prediction of Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department: The Revised Geneva Score

Grégoire Le Gal, Marc Righini, Pierre‐Marie Roy +4

Annals of Internal Medicine

The proposed score is entirely standardized and is based on clinical variables. It has sustained internal and external validation and should now be tested for clinical usefulness in an outcome study.

Long-Term Total Parenteral Nutrition with Growth, Development, and Positive Nitrogen Balance

Stanley J. Dudrick, Douglas W. Wilmore, Harry M. Vars +1

This chapter is an experimental and follow-up clinical study showing that normal life could be sustained using parenteral means only. The experimental element involved six beagle puppies who were...

Neural Responses during Anticipation of a Primary Taste Reward

John P. O’Doherty, Ralf Deichmann, Hugo Critchley +1

Neuron

FAO, IFAD, and WFP. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015: Meeting the 2015 International Hunger Targets: Taking Stock of Uneven Progress. Rome: FAO, 2015

Shelley McGuire

Advances in Nutrition

Current options for the valorization of food manufacturing waste: a review

Nadia Mirabella, Valentina Castellani, Serenella Sala

Journal of Cleaner Production

The iron-sulfur clusters of dehydratases are primary intracellular targets of copper toxicity

Lee Macomber, James A. Imlay

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Excess copper is poisonous to all forms of life, and copper overloading is responsible for several human pathologic processes. The primary mechanisms of toxicity are unknown. In this study, mutants...

Hephaestin, a ceruloplasmin homologue implicated in intestinal iron transport, is defective in the sla mouse

Chris D. Vulpe, Yien–Ming Kuo, Therese L. Murphy +5

Nature Genetics

Improving nutrition through biofortification: A review of evidence from HarvestPlus, 2003 through 2016

Howarth E. Bouis, Amy Saltzman

Global Food Security

Biofortification is a feasible and cost-effective means of delivering micronutrients to populations that may have limited access to diverse diets and other micronutrient interventions. Since 2003,...

Neurobiology of Zinc and Zinc-Containing Neurons

Christopher J. Frederickson

International review of neurobiology

Synthetic fluorescent sensors for studying the cell biology of metals

Dylan W. Domaille, Emily L. Que, Christopher J. Chang

Nature Chemical Biology

Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ultrasound-Assisted Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Acute Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Nils Kucher, Peter Boekstegers, Oliver J. Müller +16

Circulation

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01166997.

The requirement of intestinal bacterial flora for the development of an IgE production system fully susceptible to oral tolerance induction

Nobuyuki Sudo, S. Sawamura, Kazuo Tanaka +3

The Journal of Immunology

The role of intestinal bacterial flora in oral tolerance induction to the IgE response was investigated using germfree (GF) mice. When GF mice were orally administered 20 mg of OVA as tolerogen...

Stabilization of protein structure by sugars

Tsutomu Arakawa, Serge N. Timasheff

Biochemistry

The preferential interaction of proteins with solvent components was measured in aqueous lactose and glucose systems by using a high precision densimeter. In all cases, the protein was preferentially...

Bacterial Secretion Systems: An Overview

Erin R. Green, Joan Mecsas

Microbiology Spectrum

Bacterial pathogens utilize a multitude of methods to invade mammalian hosts, damage tissue sites, and thwart the immune system from responding. One essential component of these strategies for many...

Free Radicals and Antioxidants: A Personal View

Barry Halliwell

Nutrition Reviews

Free radicals and other oxygen-derived species are constantly generated in vivo, both by "accidents of chemistry" and for specific metabolic purposes. The reactivity of different free radicals...

An Update on Terminology and Reporting

Kenneth P. Batts, Jürgen Ludwig

The American Journal of Surgical Pathology

The terms chronic active hepatitis (CAH), chronic persistent hepatitis (CpH), and chronic lobular hepatitis (CLH) have become obsolete, and their use without further specifications should be...

Angiotensin II stimulates extracellular matrix protein synthesis through induction of transforming growth factor-beta expression in rat glomerular mesangial cells.

Shoji Kagami, Wayne A. Border, Diane E. Miller +1

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Angiotensin II (Ang II) has been implicated in the development of progressive glomerulosclerosis, but the precise mechanism of this effect remains unclear. In an experimental model, we have shown...

The Role of Zinc in Selective Neuronal Death After Transient Global Cerebral Ischemia

Jae‐Young Koh, Sang Won Suh, Byoung Joo Gwag +3

Science

Zinc is present in presynaptic nerve terminals throughout the mammalian central nervous system and likely serves as an endogenous signaling substance. However, excessive exposure to extracellular...

Construction of an eae deletion mutant of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli by using a positive-selection suicide vector

Michael S. Donnenberg, James B. Kaper

Infection and Immunity

The ability to attach to epithelial cells, efface the microvillus surface, and disrupt the underlying cytoskeleton is characteristic of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC). Recently, eae, a gene...

Variation in crystalline type with amylose content in maize starch granules: an X-ray powder diffraction study

Norman W.H. Cheetham, Leping Tao

Carbohydrate Polymers

A Comparison of Three Months of Anticoagulation with Extended Anticoagulation for a First Episode of Idiopathic Venous Thromboembolism

Clive Kearon, Michael Gent, Jack Hirsh +19

New England Journal of Medicine

Patients with a first episode of idiopathic venous thromboembolism should be treated with anticoagulant agents for longer than three months.

Role of informal sector recycling in waste management in developing countries

David C. Wilson, Costas A. Velis, Christopher Cheeseman

Habitat International

On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam

Adam Wagstaff, Eddy van Doorslaer, Naoko Watanabe

Journal of Econometrics

The role and application of enterococci in food and health

María R. Foulquié-Moreno, Panagiotis Sarantinopoulos, Effie Tsakalidou +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

PLS Path Modeling: From Foundations to Recent Developments and Open Issues for Model Assessment and Improvement

Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Laura Trinchera, Silvano Amato

The precision of ultraviolet absorption measurements in the Schmidt-Thannhauser procedure for nucleic acid estimation

A. Fleck, Hamish N. Munro

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Extended duration rivaroxaban versus short-term enoxaparin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism after total hip arthroplasty: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial

Ajay K. Kakkar, Benjamin Brenner, Ola E. Dahl +7

The Lancet

Factors influencing the physico-chemical, morphological, thermal and rheological properties of some chemically modified starches for food applications—A review

Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur, Owen J. McCarthy

Food Hydrocolloids

Quantitative determination of the odorants of young red wines from different grape varieties

Vicente Ferreira, Ricardo L�pez, Juan Cacho

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Fifty-two young monovarietal red wines made with Grenache (17 samples), Tempranillo (11 samples), Cabernet Sauvignon (12 samples) and Merlot (12 samples) grapes have been analysed by HRGC–MS to...

The Continuing Problem of False Positives in Repeated Measures ANOVA in Psychophysiology: A Multivariate Solution

Michael W. Vasey, Julian F. Thayer

Psychophysiology

ABSTRACT Violation of the validity assumptions of repeated measures analysis of variance continues to be a problem in psychophysiology. Such violation results in positive bias for those tests...

Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles

Laura E. Caulfield, Mercedes de Onís, Monika Blössner +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The epidemiology of venous thromboembolism

John A. Heit, Frederick A. Spencer, Richard H. White

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is categorized by the U.S. Surgeon General as a major public health problem. VTE is relatively common and associated with reduced survival and substantial health-care...

Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations selectively kill cancer cells: Action as a pro-drug to deliver hydrogen peroxide to tissues

Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey, Murali C. Krishna +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Human pharmacokinetics data indicate that i.v. ascorbic acid (ascorbate) in pharmacologic concentrations could have an unanticipated role in cancer treatment. Our goals here were to test whether...

The importance of mineral elements for humans, domestic animals and plants: A review

K. O. Soetan, Charles O. Olaiya, O. E. Oyewole

African Journal of Food Science

Minerals are inorganic nutrients, usually required in small amounts from less than 1 to 2500 mg per day, depending on the mineral. As with vitamins and other essential food nutrients, mineral...

The Bacterial Glycocalyx in Nature and Disease

J. William Costerton, Randall T. Irvin, K.-J. Cheng

Annual Review of Microbiology

Human coronavirus (HCoV) infection causes respiratory diseases with mild to severe outcomes. In the last 15 years, we have witnessed the emergence of two zoonotic, highly pathogenic HCoVs: severe...

A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission

Helen Clark, Awa Marie Coll‐Seck, Anshu Banerjee +27

The Lancet

Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological degradation, migrating populations,...

Glycemic index, glycemic load, and chronic disease risk—a meta-analysis of observational studies

Alan W. Barclay, Peter Petocz, Joanna McMillan-Price +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Characterization of the human colon carcinoma cell line (Caco-2) as a model system for intestinal epithelial permeability

Ismael J. Hidalgo, Thomas J. Raub, Ronald T. Borchardt

Gastroenterology

Ascorbic acid: Chemistry, biology and the treatment of cancer

Juan Du, Joseph J. Cullen, Garry R. Buettner

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer

Starch: Its Metabolism, Evolution, and Biotechnological Modification in Plants

Samuel C. Zeeman, Jens Koßmann, Alison M. Smith

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Starch is the most widespread and abundant storage carbohydrate in plants. We depend upon starch for our nutrition, exploit its unique properties in industry, and use it as a feedstock for bioethanol...

Microbial contamination of drinking water and disease outcomes in developing regions

Nicholas J. Ashbolt

Toxicology

Improving emulsion formation, stability and performance using mixed emulsifiers: A review

David Julian McClements, Seid Mahdi Jafari

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Enoxaparin Prevents Death and Cardiac Ischemic Events in Unstable Angina/Non–Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction

Elliott M. Antman, Carolyn H. McCabe, Enrique Gurfinkel +9

Circulation

Enoxaparin is superior to UFH for reducing a composite of death and serious cardiac ischemic events during the acute management of UA/NQMI patients without causing a significant increase in the rate...

Use of phoA gene fusions to identify a pilus colonization factor coordinately regulated with cholera toxin.

Robert K. Taylor, Virginia L. Miller, D Furlong +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The transposon TnphoA was used to generate fusions between phoA, the gene for alkaline phosphatase (PhoA), and genes encoding proteins that are secreted by Vibrio cholerae. One of the PhoA+ mutants...